As most of you lads are aware of, the EU RBG ladder and 5v5 ladder are basically owned by the russian troops. Just to clarify: when I say 'owned' I'm not talking about their superiority, I'm talking about their disgusting wintrading behavior. They wintrade with 5k MMR and there's no way the rest of EU can compete with that. For that reason, these brackets have been abandoned and are now being ruled under russian command.

As of last night, the russians invaded our homeland; the 3v3 bracket. We can't allow this. The russians must be stopped. Look for the ones in the top that are decked out in PvE gear or green gear. Or perhaps the ones that got 2.4k achievement and 2.7k achievement within a few hours...

I hereby call for soldiers who are willing to fight this battle until the russians are dead (read: banned). I'll make a report form and all you have to do is find these 'russian insects' and put their name in the report.

"Hello, I'd like to report players for wintrading. Players keep wintrading in both 5v5 and RBG and you even reset RBG ladders because you're aware of this. Now they started in 3v3 aswell.

Please look into their recent activity and their match history and take action. They destroy the fun in this game and I will unsub if you don't take appropriate action."

Remember to always include the name and realm of the player you're reporting. The Armory links are fucked when you copy them here at AJ, so just click on the links first and copy paste into your ticket!

If you really want to shine you can throw in some hashtags if you want them to reply faster. That gets 'em going. I usually do that. #wintradinginsects #scum #bug #stuck #cheater #unsub #enjoy4millsubs #apocalypse #coldwar

That should be good enough. Just name all the russians and link their profiles and we'll report them all!

Almost nothing changed between 5.3 and 5.4 in terms of stat weights. Refer to this link to see what to gem in each slot. And you may check my PvP spreadsheet to see the source of this information (only updated it for warrior so far).

For most classes I'd say it's still slightly easier to obtain a 1% damage dealt increase than a 1% damage received reduction via gemming, so the trend of continuing to gem for damage will probably continue, but gemming for resil is still very effective if you know you will be getting focused (or if you being trained poses the greatest risk to the team).